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    Bios flashing help

    I want to flash my bios in order to make it more vista compatible in the hopes that it will finally cure my computers strange alergic reaction to my keyboard.
    Ive never flashed a bios before and Im a little confused as to what I should use to do it. I have an Asus KFN5-D SLI mobo, which I installed myself straight out of the box, so the bios has not been flashed previously.
    On the Asus support site it tells me I need to use AFUDOS, but the instructions are a little unclear, Im not sure whether I need to boot from a floppy disk in DOS, or whether I I can use EZflash which sounds a little less complicated.
    Heres the link to the support page http://support.asus.com/technicaldoc...Language=en-us
    Can someone explain the difference, or just tell me which one to use?
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    Re: Bios flashing help

    I have used AFUDOS without problems, although it is a bit of a faff creating the dos boot disk. EZ flash looks to be OK, as it is a built in bios function, but not something I have used myself.

    Remember that reflashing the bios is one of the riskiest things you can do - while mfrs take precaustions to make it as safe as possible, a power cut during the process can potentailly render the bios corrupt, and the mobo unbootable. If you have a UPS, then use that to power the PC.

    You may want to back up the old bios before re-flashing just in case the new bios doesn't work as well as you expected.
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    Re: Bios flashing help

    you really cant go wrong with EZ flash. it does nearly everything for you. Assuming you have the correct file for flashing.

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    Re: Bios flashing help

    god yeh use ezflash, i update mine by shoving the bios on a memory card, it picks it up, you click yes (twice) sit back and wait for the pc to restart

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    Re: Bios flashing help

    Agree with EZ flash, sooooooooo simple to use

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    Re: Bios flashing help

    third the EZ flash. Pen drive. simple... Have had no problems

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    Re: Bios flashing help

    I'll fourth that! EZflash makes BIOS flashing simple. Put the new BIOS on a flash drive, enter EZflash on the mobo, boot the flash drive and away you go!

    TBH im not really sure it will help with your keyboard though? It could just be a driver issue.

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    Re: Bios flashing help

    i' ll fifth ezflash... it's much much safer than doing it in a windows environment
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